Family concerns kept me away much of March and into April. Realizing that I had four matches to play by 14 April I belatedly attempted to get them all played on that day. All four players were available to play but I missed the fact that the 14th actually meant by the morning of the 14th central USA time and these matches were not allowed. Thus, those four players were awarded shutout wins. As such, I do not see how it would be fair to my remaining opponents vis-a-vis those awarded wins against me to have to play me. Nor is it fair to those I played prior. With three other league participants excluded I do not see how it is possible to be fair to the remaining players other than to exclude all matches played for myself and the other three. While I understand the concept; the spirit somewhat eludes me. Consider myself resigned from this group, with my apologies. I will look forward to NC where the scheduling and spirit seems to be somewhat more flexible. Best of luck to those remaining.

I wish to thank you for your post and I think that I owe you a short explanation of why the spirit of the rules in the League is the one you are seeing.

To have strict deadlines and strict rulings is really a request we had from the other players. In the "old" League I was more flexible with deadlines and people started scheduling the games without hurry because "in any case Qorlas will give us more days". This led to a lot o fmisunderstandings and difficulties in the last seasons of "old League" that led to quarreling and complains.

When we decided to renew the League concept, one of the thing that the players definitely asked me were to strictly respect the deadlines and to come out with the multiple deadlines thing. I don't like it, my spirit is to play the games, but this was asked from me and I do that.
Probably this is the result of players playing too much with scheduling in the last seasons.

League is a long tournament and scheduling is a greater responsibility here than in NC.

*Explanation about the mid-day deadline in Monday. I used a midday European time deadline to avoid penalizations of USA based players that have still available their Sunday evening/night to play last games.
The deadline should really be read as (more or less) Midnight of Sunday USA west coast.

Regarding the attmepts in the last days: I used to help them too. but after clear requests by players I added the rule that you schedule games in the last 3/4 days before the deadline at your own risk. Again this happened because of players playing too much the system in the past.

I invite you to play your remaining matches. Your division already lost 3 players and every match played contribute to the TELO rankings that will be used for next tournaments.

Division D2 suffered the most from trouble this time. My aim will be to divide in a larger number of divsions the new players next time (and for the people reading it: we can do it only in one way.......)

(POSTING IT also in the forum).

I apologize again for the troubles and I hope that you will finish the reamining games
I am just an executor and troubles in real ife happens

In reviewing the current standings, my games (played, forfeited, and remaining) have a significant effect on who may ultimately advance from this division; specifically with respect to Mask, LG, 2 Cutter, and Zil. Granting some a 0-4 win while counting others that have to play me as a negative will unfairly impact the final standings and there is no way around that if I play my final matches. The only fair thing to do for ALL players in contention in this group is to have all of my games forfeited. If anyone outside of contention (Alau sent me a message for instance) would like to play a set for fun, I would be happy to, but these games should not be allowed to sway the final standings of this group. If you review the potential impact of me playing the remainder of my matches I am sure you will agree.

I checked the ranking now and your games will not affect in a decisive way the run for the top 2 places that will grant the C division.

LG, 2Cutter and Zil all got 6 points from you. Maskaride cannot reach anymore the top 2 places with the current ranking.

If you complete the season or you retire will change nothing in the relative points of 2Cutter, Zil and LG.

Even if you retire Maskaride will have practically no chance to reach the top 2 places.
Top 2 places would be at 58.5 points and Maskaride would be at 46.
Mask would have still a chance cut he should win all of his games practcally and hope for ZIL and 2Cutter to lose theirs. Maskaride at best can reach 62 making to 6-0 against Shamogi and 2 Cutter

Just this post to mention I am a bit upset that a few months after I completed my 15 games, my score keeps going down...
A 12-3 clean record when all players were motivated to play their games is likely to become a 6-3...

Hi, i am a bit new on this kind of competition and rules, so, after a while I understood that i had to produce my own schindler list and whine to get some points when match was ruled, right ?
thx in advance for explanation Q

Just this post to mention I am a bit upset that a few months after I completed my 15 games, my score keeps going down...
A 12-3 clean record when all players were motivated to play their games is likely to become a 6-3...

The ruling system shows its limits I'd say.

As soon as one player drops of the competition, standings are flawed.
It is kind of compensated with TELO. All your wins will be recorded, so you do not "lose" everything.
Ruling system has its limits, but the issue is not the rulings/the rules/the TD here. The issue = the players concerned.

That said, it takes one second to inform everybody that you are busy. Ditka played some games on April 4th, (apparently) he did not seem very concerned by League at that time.
I wish kostas would have said anything (a pm to Div A to apologize/with an explanation would have been appreciated). Instead we had to chase his brother-in-law in the lobby, and he decided to dump us like crap. Nice way to deal with players you've been playing for more than 5 years.

As nice as Ditka is, complaining about spirit, flexibility and giving lessons about fairness is fairly ridiculous.
What is fair = stand by your commitment and respect your opponents by playing all your matches.

What sucks in this group is that fedyna, Alautre, Aurora played NC and were considered as reliable players. Same with shamogi.

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Hi, i am a bit new on this kind of competition and rules, so, after a while I understood that i had to produce my own schindler list and whine to get some points when match was ruled, right ?

Alain, your English is very good. A peak at the rules before signing up = you know what you have to do.
FAQ if you had question was open, hundreds of posts were written to explain everything, a pm to me/Knockando takes one second.
It has nothing to do with whining, but with being responsible. Anybody who cares about the competition takes 2 minutes to communicate with the TD.
And Schindler's list ? Wtf ?

Thanks a lot Orga guys : Maximour , Qorlas , Sysy
Its always thé same thing in bottom division ..some players signed but dont realized How is pretty hard to play all matchs . Some players arent good communicators , some are busy... Thats Life
Ditka is à Nice player to play With , this why i m talking about saying good Spirit .bbut guys , please send a little pm if you cant find Time to play.
Alain, no need to whin or schindler whatever : rules are thé same for all.
Legoupil, you Will not hâve this kind of problèmes in upper division.